Mike Allen’s “Playbook” this morning does a good job grabbing the juicy bits. A flavor: “Book details internal struggle over Afghan plan — OBAMA FRUSTRATED BY MILITARY: Woodward account centers on war strategy review,” by Steve Luxenberg: “President Obama urgently looked for a way out of the war...

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins 416pp, Bantam, £20 In September 1997 Richard Dawkins allowed an Australian film crew into his Oxford home, only to realise in the course of a particularly inept interview that they were creationists trying to trap him. Tumbling to this, he paused some...

It’s no secret that there have been ferocious arguments within the Obama administration over the war in Afghanistan: both substantive policy debates, encouraged by the president during meetings as a means of fully exploring various military and diplomatic options; and nasty public exchanges and...

By  Michael Hastings Jun 22, 2010 10:00 AM EDT This article appears in RS 1108/1109 from July 8-22, 2010, on newsstands Friday, June 25. 'How'd I get screwed into going to this dinner?" demands Gen. Stanley McChrystal. It's a Thursday night in mid-April, and the commander of all...

By Matthew Dallek Sunday, May 16, 2010     THE PROMISE President Obama, Year One By Jonathan Alter Simon & Schuster. 458 pp. $28 Jonathan Alter has delivered an exceptionally well-written account of President Obama's first year in office. Brimming with fresh and judicious ideas,...

"With elegance and insight, Fareed Zakaria sets forth for our times a fundamental truth previously articulated by Aristotle and Tocqueville:  unregulated democracy undermines liberty and the rule of law. The Future of Freedom is one of the most important books on global political trends to...

Now available in paperback with an all-new preface.  In New York Times bestseller, The Post-American World, Fareed Zakaria argues that the "rise of the rest" is the great story of our time. "This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else."...

Is de moord op Pim Fortuyn echt opgelost? Laat de CIA zich in met drugshandel? Grijpen de Illuminati de wereldmacht? Was de Amerikaanse regering al voor 9/11 op de hoogte van de aanslag op de Twin Towers? Is Tupac Shakur nu wel of niet dood? En wie zijn de ware daders achter het bloedbad in...

In the annals of contemporary change literature, Alvin Toffler is the 600-pound gorilla. He and his wife and collaborator Heidi Toffler have written a baker's dozen of books that have all been best-sellers, starting way, way back in 1970 with Future Shock. The family tree of thousands of books...

Djeki is een mythologische figuur in Kameroen. Hij werd geboren met magische eigenschappen en werd samen met zijn moeder verstoten door zijn vader. In alle verhalen speelt het conflict tussen zoon en vader, tussen Djeki en zijn broers en verdere familie. Steeds is hij, dankzij de adviezen van...